A question that we all ask ourselves at some point: When am I going to sleep soundly again? That is something that we cannot answer directly, but we can help you understand the stages of sleep development to:
- May your expectations, regarding your baby’s dream, be real
- So that you have tools to help you accompany your child in this process
The first thing we need to know is that most of the situations that are interpreted as “sleep problems” are actually an incorrect interpretation by adults:
- First, because we do not know the expected development of sleep in babies and children
- Second, because it bears little resemblance to the dream of adults
- Third, because the demands of the world of work do not give us room to accompany this process. We have to produce and perform as if we were not breeding.
The first thing we have to know is that: babies do not sleep straight through the night. It’s normal, it’s expected, and it’s healthy. And here the following myth is demolished: babies do not wake up from breastfeeding, they wake up because their maturational development requires it and, in any case, thanks to the characteristics of breastfeeding, they can go back to sleep.
The feeling of the first times, is that it is a continuum of 24 hours: “lactation and sleep”. And that’s why, too, we find it so exhausting and so disruptive with respect to our habits.
Deep sleep helps to rest the body but during this period, babies do not usually get very tired physically, the priority is to mature mentally and accompany them in this process.